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Casablanca Was Heavily Censored: Classic Romance Is Now Available in Affordable Blu-ray Version

By: Gil Mansergh

1938 Movie Version of A Christmas Carol: A Review of the Movie for Lovers of Dickens’ Book

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Sherlock Holmes World War II Movies: Starring Basil Rathbone As Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

By: John K. Davis

Actress Susan Hayward: Academy Award Winner for Portrayal of Barbara Graham

By: Feature Writer Kathleen Airdrie

Women Behind Bars: Images in Ophuls Films Portray Women's Oppression

By: Grace Troje

Ophuls' Sensitivity to Social Class: Society's Rejection of the Disadvantaged

By: Grace Troje

Ophuls' Representation of Patriarchy: The Powerful Controlling Men of Ophuls' Films

By: Grace Troje

Max Ophuls' Femme Fatales: Dangerous Beautiful Women and Their 'Victims'

By: Grace Troje

The Godfather - Facts Behind The Fiction: Rumours and Reports Surrounding The Filming of This Classic

By: Ramon Youseph

Max Ophuls Meets Nietzsche: Ophuls' Philosophical Interest in Eternal Recurrence

By: Grace Troje

Feminist Films of Max Ophuls: Classic Films Concerned with Women's Oppression

By: Grace Troje

Chinatown – Classic Film Review: An Immortal Hollywood Classic That Enthralls Modern Audiences

By: Iulia Filip

Sherlock Holmes Movie Review - The House of Fear: With Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

By: John K. Davis

Sherlock Holmes Movie Review, The Woman in Green: With Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

By: John K. Davis

Dramatic Famous Movie Quotes We Use Everyday: Hollywood's Great Quotes & Famous Lines from the Drama Genre

By: Deborah Read

Film Review: Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces: Landmark Drama Helped Define the New Hollywood of the 1970s

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

The Last Time I Saw Paris a Post WWII Love Story: Decadence Takes a Toll on Americans Living in France in 1954 Movie

By: Christine Nyholm

Man in the Net a Mystery Starring Alan Ladd: Carolyn Jones Portrays Alcoholic Wife in Suspense Drama from 1959

By: Christine Nyholm

Film Review: Wall Street with Michael Douglas: Corporate Shark Mentors a Young and Impressionable Stock Broker

By: Scott Hayden

Casablanca a Classic Romance Set in World War II: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman Star in Story of Lost Love

By: Christine Nyholm

The Man Between - Post WWII Thriller in Berlin: James Mason and Claire Bloom Movie in Germany After World War II

By: Christine Nyholm

Berlin Express a Post WWII Look at Germany: Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon Movie in War Ravaged Frankfurt

By: Christine Nyholm

Man Tries to Drive Wife Crazy in Gaslight: Suspense Thriller Stars Ingrid Bergmand and Charles Boyer

By: Christine Nyholm

The Manchurian Candidate a Cold War Thriller: Political Intrigue and Deception With Amazing Twists and Turns

By: Christine Nyholm

All Fall Down Stars Warren Beatty as Drifter: Family Crisis Caused by Selfish Cad Who Breaks Hearts

By: Christine Nyholm

Bonnie and Clyde a Dramatic Gangster Film: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway Portray Depression Era Bank Robbers

By: Christine Nyholm

Old Acquaintances a Story of Friends and Rivals: 1943 Film Starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins a Character Study

By: Christine Nyholm

Love Letters a Classic Romantic Drama: Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton in Cyrano de Bergerac Story

By: Christine Nyholm

The Barretts of Wimpole Street a Love Story: Jennifer Jones Stars as Poet Elizabeth Barrett as Young Woman

By: Christine Nyholm

Movie Review - The Set-Up (1949): One of the All-Time Best Boxing Films

By: John K. Davis

Portrait of Jennie a Classic Romantic Thriller: Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton as Star Crossed Lovers

By: Christine Nyholm

Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Jimmy Stewart’s Classic Film about Corruption in the Government

By: Vasu Chetty

Cool Hand Luke: The Movie that Defined a Culture and Portrayed an Idol

By: Will Forgrave

Three Gothic Romance Movies of the 1940s: Rebecca, Jane Eyre, and Dragonwyck

By: Emily Chauviere

10 Best Films About The Troubles in Northern Ire: A List of Great Movies on the Political and Religious Struggles

By: Gareth Harding

Shadow of a Doubt meets The Killers: How Ernest Hemingway helped inspire a Hitchcock masterpiece

By: Amanda Flinner

Shadow of a Doubt - Finding Uncle Charlie: Creating Alfred Hitchcock's Merry Widow Murderer"

By: Amanda Flinner

12 Angry Men - Movie Review - 1957: Classic Film Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall

By: Deborah Read

Vertigo Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Hitchcock's Classic Tale of Love, Loss, and Insanity

By: Adam Gilmore

Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine: Benoit's Quiet Revolution

By: Adam Dalton-Wyatt

The Diary of Anne Frank Blu-ray Review: An Incredible Movie for All Generations

By: Feature Writer Francine Brokaw

Love Story, Starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw: Classic Romance and the 1970's Counterculture

By: Kelly Fetty

September Affair a Radical Romance for 1950: Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine Star in Adult Story of Adultery

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

Lon Chaney, Sr. Accepting the Mutant

By: Dale Uhlmann

Forgotten Anti-War Movies of the 1930s: Westfront 1918, Broken Lullaby, The Eagle and the Hawk

By: John K. Davis

Homosexuality in Cinema: Dirk Bogarde in Victim: Sexual Politics in Basil Dearden's Victim (1961) with Peter McEnery

By: Hana Lewis

Classic Film Review: A Matter of Life and Death : Heaven and Reality Collide in Famous Drama

By: Will Roszczyk

Film Review: Deliverance: Backwoods Horror Starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds

By: Will Roszczyk

Film Review: Badlands by Director Terrence Malic: Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen Star in Malick Masterpiece

By: Will Roszczyk

Network: The Transformation of Journalism: A Struggling Network Employs An Insane Retiring Newsman For Ratings

By: Mckenzie Cassidy

Mean Streets (1973) Film Review: A Great Prelude To Two Outstanding Careers

By: Lars Aumueller

Angels With Dirty Faces Movie (1938): Cagney, O'Brien, Bogart Star in Seminal Gangster Picture

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

Once Upon a Time in America Movie (1984): Sergio Leone’s Epic About Jewish Mobsters Stars De Niro, Woods

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939): Greer Garson Co-Stars in British Classic About Beloved Teacher

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

12 Angry Men: Film Review: Henry Fonda Starred in Sidney Lumet's Directorial Debut

By: Joseph John

Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar: Brando's Only Shakespearean Performance Remains Memorable

By: Steve Van Dien

Now, Voyager - Review of Classic Tearjerker: Bette Davis Stars as a Woman Given a Second Chance

By: Patricia Deneen

Dr. Zhivago - The Film and The Author: Pasternak's Russia

By: Eleanore Whitaker

The Shawshank Redemption: Fifteen Years Later: Its Message is Worth Another Look During these Uncertain Times

By: Bradley Allen Ritzenthaler

The Birth of a Nation: A Silent Film Masterpiece

By: Ellen Phillips

In the Heat of the Night: Film Review: Black Detective Virgil Tibbs's triumph over Racial Prejudices

By: Joseph John

Oliver Stone's Platoon: Movie Review: Dafoe and Sheen Star in Vietnam Epic

By: Will Roszczyk

The French Connection: Film Review: Hackman and Schneider in Brutal Crime Classic

By: Will Roszczyk

DVD Review: Casablanca Ultimate Collection: Warner Home Video Film Stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

By: Feature Writer Dominic von Riedemann

Freaks Among Greatest of All Cult Classics: Controversial, Oft-Censored 1932 Thriller Blends Real Horror, Pathos

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

Film Review: Casablanca: Revisiting Bogart and Bergman's Classic

By: Will Roszczyk

The Enchanted Cottage Movie (1945): Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire Star in Classic Fantasy

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

American War Film Epics in the 1920s: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Big Parade, and Wings

By: John K. Davis

Gone with the Wind: Gone with the Wind's Depiction of Race and Gender

By: Cicely A. Richard

1938 Film In Name Only Offers Rare Performances: Showcases Dramatic Side of Comedic Duo Cary Grant & Carole Lombard

By: Jennifer L Mashuga

Grace Metalious' Peyton Place: Metalious' Novel Sanitized by Hollywood

By: Cicely A. Richard

History is Made at Night (1937): Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur Shine in Classic Film Romance

By: Feature Writer Barry M. Grey

Moby Dick (1956) Film Review: A Whale of a Saga: Revenge and Counter Revenge Upon the Open Sea

By: Feature Writer Jeannie Delahunt

Film Analysis: Imitation of Life: Claudette Colbert vs. Lana Turner

By: Cicely A. Richard

Wait Until Dark Film Review: Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin Menace a Blind Audrey Hepburn

By: Aaron Krygier

The Classic Taking of Pelham 1,2,3: Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw Square Off in the New York Subway

By: Aaron Krygier

Oscar Winners from the Late 1940s: The Lost Weekend, The Best Years of Our Lives, Gentleman's Agreement

By: John K. Davis

Classic Film: The Face of Another: Brilliant Japanese director's play on masks moody and provocative

By: Rudy Kelly

American Beauty: A film classic that explores lives trapped within the American Dream

By: David Hamilton

Treasure Island: Before Depp's Jack Sparrow, there was Beery's Long John Silver

By: Dan Lalande

Treasure of the Sierra Madre: The Quest for Gold Turns Sixty Years Old

By: Dan Lalande

Film Review: The Shawshank Redemption: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman Form Lasting Friendship

By: Scott Hayden

Best Picture - 1967: In the Heat of the Night

By: Dan Lalande

The Queen - Mirren v. Davis: Helen Mirren's Elizabeth 2 was preceded by Bette Davis' Elizabeth 1

By: Dan Lalande

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